The Society of Naval Architects & Marine EngineersThe Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers is an internationally recognized nonprofit, technical, professional society of individual members serving the maritime and offshore industries and their suppliers.USA New Jersey

Heriot-Watt UniversityThe Ocean Systems Laboratory (OSL) is a leading international centre for research, development and exploitation of acoustic, robotic and video-imaging systems.United Kingdom

Warship 2006 - Future Surface Warships

10/5/2005

Venue: London, UK

This symposium, the 26th in RINA's successful Warship series, will look at the next generation of surface warships. All capabilities of these new ships must be carefully balanced to complement the existing naval inventories, meeting new Operational Requirements in the post cold war world of the expeditionary force and the police action, whilst bringing cost effective improvement wherever possible. This is especially important where new designs have been conceived to replace more than one class of ship, a trend that seems to be emerging and which points towards the 'multi-purpose' warship. Joint nation collaboration in the development and procurement of common ships is still an important element in many projects where nations have similar requirements!

This conference will discuss the whole subject but will focus particularly on how the issue of survivability affects the design of warships.